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The arrests in
the dawn raid, by a counter-terror police squad in the
Basaksehir district on the European side of the city, brought
the number of people detained in the investigation to 24, it
said.
A police spokesman could not confirm the report, which was also
carried by other media.
Three suspected Islamic State suicide bombers killed 44 people
in a gun and bomb attack at Istanbul's main airport on Tuesday,
the deadliest in a string of attacks in Turkey this year.
The suspected suicide bombers were Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz
nationals, a Turkish government official said on Thursday.
Separately, security forces on Wednesday detained four Turkish
citizens at the Oncupinar border gate in southeast Turkey on
suspicion of membership in a terrorist group, the local
governor's office said in a statement.
The four were attempting to return to Turkey from a conflict
zone in Syria under Islamic State control, it said.
(Writing by Daren Butler, Editing by David Dolan)
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